 Academic career
since 2003 : Professor forTectonics, EOST-ULP, Strasbourg
2003 - 1997 : Maître de conférences, EOST-ULP, Strasbourg
1999 - 1997 : Researcher at the Geological Institute, ETH-Zurich
1995 - 1997 : Researcher at the Danish Lithosphere Centre in Copenhagen
1991 - 1995 : Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. student at the ETH-Zurich
Research Interests
rifted margins; foreland basins; shallow-crustal deformation; Alps-Tethys-Atlantic
Major projects
 Relations between dedimentation, deformation and magmatism at the transition from rifting to seafloor spreading (GDR-marges, Royal Society, Swiss National Science Foundation, ODP)
Importance of the structural heritance and the influence of deep structures on the morphology and syn-tectonic sedimentation in a foreland setting (Provence)
Comparative anatomy of passive continental margins: Atlantic and Alps (GDR-marges, TOTAL)
Teaching
tectonics, sedimentary basins, Alps, field classes
Selected publications
Manatschal, G. (1999). Fluid-and reaction-assisted low-angle normal faulting: evidence from rift-related brittle fault rocks in the Alps (Err nappe, eastern Switzerland), J. Struct. Geol., 21, 777-793.
Manatschal, G. & Bernoulli, D. (1999). Architecture and tectonic evolution of non-volcanic margins: Present-day Galicia and ancient Adria. Tectonics, 18 (6) ,1099-1199.
Manatschal, G., Marquer, D. & Früh-Green, G.L. (2000). Channelized fluid flow and mass transfer along a rift-related detachment fault (Eastern Alps, southeastern Switzerland). Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 112 (1), 21-33.
Manatschal, G., Froitzheim, N., Rubenach, M. J. & Turrin, B. (2001). The role of detachment faulting in the formation of an ocean-continent transition: insights from the Iberia Abyssal Plain. In "Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: evidence from land and sea", Wilson, R. C. L., Whitmarsh, R. B., Taylor, B. & Froitzheim, N. (eds). Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ.,187, 405-428.
Wilson, R.C.L., Manatschal, G. & Wise, S. (2001). Rifting along non-volcanic passive margins: stratigraphic and seismic evidence from the Mesozoic succession of the Alps and western Iberia. In "Non-volcanic rifting of continental margins: evidence from land and sea", Wilson, R. C. L., Whitmarsh, R. B., Taylor, B. and Froitzheim, N. (eds). Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ., 187, 429-452.
Whitmarsh, R.B., Manatschal, G. & Minshull, T.B. (2001): Evolution of magma-poor continental margins from rifting to seafloor spreading. Nature, 413, 150-154.
Desmurs, L., Müntener, O. & Manatschal, G. (2002). Onset of magmatic accretion within a magma-poor passive margin: a case study from the Platta ocean-continent transition, eastern Switzerland. Contrib. Miner. Petrol., 144, 365-382.
Bernoulli, D., Manatschal, G., Desmurs, L. & Müntener, O. (2003). Where did Gustav Steinmann see the trinity? Back to the roots of an Alpine ophiolite concept. In "Ophiolite concept and the evolution of geological thought", Dilek, Y. and Newcomb, S. (eds). Boulder, Colorado, Geol. Soc. Amer. Special Paper 373, 93-110.
Hölker, A. Manatschal, G., Holliger, K. & Bernoulli, D. (2003). Tectonic nature and seismic response of top-basement detachment faults in magma-poor rifted margins. Tectonics, 22/4, 1035, doi : 10.1029/2001TC001347.
Manatschal G. (2004). New models for evolution of magma-poor rifted margins based on a review of data and concepts from West Iberia and the Alps. Int. J. Earth Sci., 93, 432-466.
|
